Comments | lo5an: lj, privacy, and identity maintenance

lo5an

lj, privacy, and identity maintenance

Mar 07, 2007 18:31

So, in case you missed it, lj has added a tool to mass change the security level on old posts.

I just made all public posts from before 2007 into friends only posts. I think I'm probably going to do this at least once a year now, and I'll likely do something similar with my flickr account. Truly public stuff will probably all get moved elsewhere.

privacy, status, lj

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lovimoment March 8 2007, 01:13:57 UTC

Why would one want to do this? Are our pasts more secret than our presnts?

lo5an March 8 2007, 01:35:13 UTC

Yes :-)

In part, my relationship with my lj has changed and I just want to have a smaller public presence here.

I've had this account since 2001, and I don't particularly want to go through a half decade of posts and sort them.

Also, I've been thinking about the Internet, and memory, and things of this nature, and it seems natural to have some sort of forgetting mechanism.

I dunno. My ideas here are not all that well formed. I'm just thinking out loud, mostly.

lovimoment March 8 2007, 13:13:35 UTC

Hmmm...a "half decade" sounds so much longer than "several years" somehow...

I never thought of myself as having a "relationship" with my LJ.

Point 2 in henrylyne's post seems to indicate that you can make, for instance, all public posts into friends-only posts, but in doing so you won't run the risk of making some private posts visible to friends, correct?

lo5an March 8 2007, 15:14:42 UTC

Right, you change all posts of privacy level A to privacy level B. I made all public posts friends-only, and private posts weren't effected. Also, the tool doesn't currently do anything with custom privacy levels... so, if you've got posts that only a subset of your friends can see, those all won't be changed ( ... )

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doteatop March 8 2007, 01:26:21 UTC

This has been a long time coming. Until now it required all kinds of evil hackery.

lo5an March 8 2007, 15:20:03 UTC

Amusingly, right before reading this, I had downloaded one of the specific versions of semagic that will iterate through all of your posts and make them friends only, one by one :-)

anonymous March 10 2007, 05:15:00 UTC

Well, I feel shut out of your life. But WHATEVER.

-Laura

P.S. I like the robots.